"Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to."

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Source : "Writing with Authors Kids Love: Writing Exercises by Authors of Children's Literature". Book by Kathryn L. Johnson, 1998.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#Writing Quotes #Harder Quotes

“Ive been on the tour for 12 years, and the big dream has always been to get a world title.”
“Self belief will always push fear away, but you need to always practice self belief otherwise fear will come back and tap you on the shoulder.”
“Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind. It is hardly surprising that men and women have done what computers now do long before computers could do anything at all. The dissociation between mind and matter in men and machines is very striking; it suggests that almost any stable and reliable organization of material objects can execute an algorithm and so come to command some form of intelligence.”

Source : David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin
“I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.”
“Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.”
“I am a bit of a daydreamer.”

Source : "Matt Lucas says he can never learn to drive because he would end up killing himself". www.mirror.co.uk. July 21, 2011.
“I really kind of liked the fluidity and not really being tied down. I saw the kind of people that were tenured and what happened to them there and I thought it was kind of death, really.”
“People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.”

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